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> Languages that aren't related are not, regardless of whether you have a large corpus to work with The size of the corpus makes a huge difference. I don't see
by MiroF 6y ago
> Languages that aren't related are not, regardless of whether you have a large corpus to work with
The size of the corpus makes a huge difference. I don't see how can both be true that a. there is this massive failure of translation engines on these language pairs,
b. human translators were unable to differentiate between human translated chinese-english sentences and machine translated sentences.
It's not incredible - but it's also not awful or unusable.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> It's not incredible - but it's also not awful or unusable. If your use case is (1) being vocally excited about machine translation, or (2) having fun in your spare time, then machine translation is good enough for you. If you have a genuine need to know what something in a foreign language says, machine translation is unusable. This isn't really a good usability profile.
- MiroF 6y agoWe successfully use it in production at the company I work for, so this is just (1) not true, (2) an ill-informed opinion.